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| | Disagree, Conservative. David was a Christian King, he certainly wasn't a practitioner of Pharisaic Judaism. How do we know? Because David taught Jesus Christ is Lord and God (Psa 110:1), which the Pharisees impiously denied. Hence, Jesus Christ quoted this passage from Christian King David to refute their errors. And Christian Kings like David show us Christian Kings - like Emperor Constantine did - must work to promote the Reign of Jesus Christ. Christian Kings have built Beautiful Cathedrals for Love of Jesus Christ and funded Beautiful Orphanages for Love of Children/Neighbor, while Anti-Christian Jews were collaborating with Anti-Christian Pagans in persecuting Christians. While it's true Christians made some mistakes here and there - and that happened even during the Colonial Era - they also did many very good things.[[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]]<sup>[[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]]</sup> 18:12, September 12, 2023 (EDT) | | Disagree, Conservative. David was a Christian King, he certainly wasn't a practitioner of Pharisaic Judaism. How do we know? Because David taught Jesus Christ is Lord and God (Psa 110:1), which the Pharisees impiously denied. Hence, Jesus Christ quoted this passage from Christian King David to refute their errors. And Christian Kings like David show us Christian Kings - like Emperor Constantine did - must work to promote the Reign of Jesus Christ. Christian Kings have built Beautiful Cathedrals for Love of Jesus Christ and funded Beautiful Orphanages for Love of Children/Neighbor, while Anti-Christian Jews were collaborating with Anti-Christian Pagans in persecuting Christians. While it's true Christians made some mistakes here and there - and that happened even during the Colonial Era - they also did many very good things.[[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]]<sup>[[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]]</sup> 18:12, September 12, 2023 (EDT) |
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| | + | :First off, the Pharisaic sect was divided—since "the Jews" in John are almost certainly the same group of Judeans referred to as "the scribes and Pharisees" in Matthew, we know that it was the same crowd being rebuked by Jesus. After the raising of Lazarus, many Pharisaic Judeans followed Jesus while others remained in denial (John 11:45–46), and this must have been a significant number because the chief priests' rage-filled plot to crucify Jesus was motivated by their ranks depleted as a result of Judeans abandoning their ideology to follow Christ. (John 12:10–11). Christianity is intricately connected to Pharisaism in key doctrinal tenets, evident in Paul's open affiliation with the Pharisees in front of the Sanhedrin on the doctrine of the resurrection. (Acts 23:6) There was a Pharisaic sect of the early Jewish-Christian church (Acts 11:2), yet the Bible never records a Sadducee sect in the church, likely since the Sadducees were Hellenized apostates who rejected key biblical doctrine that the Pharisees still adhered to portions of. |
| | + | :"Anti-Christian Jews" Yes, there has been a synagogue of Satan (Rev. 2:9, 3:9) since the earliest Christian church representing the stubbornly apostate faction of Jewry, though Christianity began as a sect of Judaism. Of course, Catholicism does not emphasize it since it was founded on the anti-Jewish, Gnosticized, pagan values of ancient Rome and Alexandria, the first two locations where the Christian church abandoned Sabbath observance and turned to Sunday worship. |
| | + | :Constantine paganized Christianity. In addressing the church age of Pergamos, Jesus writes as the one who wields the "sharp sword with two edges." Why? Because the sword of the Spirit is the word of God (Eph. 6:17), sharper than any two-edged sword (Heb. 4:12). The word of God divides people between righteous and unrighteous, repentant and unrepentant. The era of Constantine from 313–538 A.D. was a time period of compromise between Christianity and paganism, between good and evil, rather than following the biblical motto of separating oneself from the world. —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|<sup>Rev. 22:13</sup>]]''''' Tuesday, 18:26, September 12, 2023 (EDT) |
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| | A Great Book to read on this is How Christianity changed the world: [https://www.amazon.in/Christianity-Changed-World-Alvin-Schmidt/dp/0310264499] by Prof. Alvin Schmidt. [[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]]<sup>[[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]]</sup> 18:19, September 12, 2023 (EDT) | | A Great Book to read on this is How Christianity changed the world: [https://www.amazon.in/Christianity-Changed-World-Alvin-Schmidt/dp/0310264499] by Prof. Alvin Schmidt. [[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]]<sup>[[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]]</sup> 18:19, September 12, 2023 (EDT) |